They’re called Breakfast Potato Skins, but I could eat these anytime. Buttery baked potato with crumbled bacon mixed in, topped with an egg with a slightly runny yolk. Simple, just a few ingredients and so good. These potato skins are not limited to just these ingredients though. You can mix in an almost endless variety […]
Tri-Color Potatoes, Japanese Eggplant and Fennel in Wine Sauce
Sometimes vegetables get the short end of the stick. They are an after thought, if even thought of at all. Many vegetables are not familiar to people, so they will not buy them and cook them. I count eggplant and fennel among those. See those lovely Japanese eggplants in the photo above. I am proud […]
The Black Girl is Back!
Somehow, I have managed to not pull every hair out of my head this past week! Who knew moving a blog from one server to another could be so harrowing? Car accidents are harrowing, not blog migrations. Well, I have come out the other side, and I am a stronger woman for it! (OK, not […]
Bacon Smashed Potatoes
Welcome 2012! A lot of blogs, morning television shows, and other random people are talking about keeping resolutions, New Year-New You transformations, healthy recipes and the like. Well, not this gal. I am hitting the ground running with a recipe all about smoky pork, silky soft potato and skin crisped by bacon fat! Oh yeah. […]
Warm Potato Salad with Bacon and Fennel
A few months ago I entered this potato salad recipe in the weekly contest on Food52. While this salad did not win, it did become an Editor’s pick, which is fabulous, since the editors of Food52 are Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs! Both are very well established food and cookbook writers. So I took a […]